Fondation Louis-de-Broglie

The Fondation Louis-de-Broglie is a French foundation for research into physics. The foundation is located at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Overview

The Fondation Louis-de-Broglie was created at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in 1973 by Louis de Broglie on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of matter waves. Louis de Broglie bequeathed the foundation property acquired thanks to his Nobel prize in physics.

The foundation receives a grant from the Fondation de France.

Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie

Since 1975 the foundation has published the peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie. Much of the published work centers on the De Broglie–Bohm theory or pilot wave theory of quantum mechanics.

The annals is or has been indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases:

• INSPEC
• Naver
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
• Publons
• Scimago
• Scopus
• WorldCat (OCLC)
• Zentralblatt MATH, only up to 2014.

Presidents

• 1973-1991: Louis Néel (Nobel Laureate in Physics)
• 1991-2000: René Thom (Fields Medal recipient)
• 2001–2021: Georges Lochak
• 2021–: Christian de Pange

References

External links

• Official Website
• Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie (journal archive date – 18 February 2008)